Informationen zum Autor Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-eight New York Times bestsellers! including Mean Streak ! Deadline ! Low Pressure ! and Smoke Screen . Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels! most of which remain in print. Sandra and her husband! Michael Brown! live in Arlington! Texas. Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included! The Dream Team ! and Boys On the Side . His many television credits include And Then There Was One! Chasing the Dragon and 100 Center Street . Zusammenfassung The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red presents a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal in high society Savannah! where a homicide detective finds his careerand lifeon the line. When Savannah detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned to an unusual crime scene! he knows discretion is key. Influential Judge Cato Laird's beloved trophy wife! Elise! has fatally shot a burglar. She claims self-defense! but Duncan suspects she's lying! and puts his career in jeopardy by investigating further. Then! in secret! Elise makes an incredible allegation! which he dismisses as the lie of a cunning woman trying to exploit his intense attraction to her. But when Elise goes missing! Duncan finds that trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death for both of them.

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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-eight New York Times bestsellers, including Mean Streak, Deadline, Low Pressure, and Smoke Screen. Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, most of which remain in print. Sandra and her husband, Michael Brown, live in Arlington, Texas.

Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side. His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon and 100 Center Street.

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"New York Times" bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal -- and a homicide detective's struggle with his own rules of conduct.When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the key to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job.At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious of Elise's innocent act. And further investigation quickly puts Duncan's career in jeopardy -- because he can't deny his increasing attraction to Elisa Laird, even if she is a married woman, a proven liar, and a murder suspect."Ricochet"'s plot twists -- as only Sandra Brown can write them -- make this a gripping thriller, in which a decent cop's worst enemy may be his own conscience...and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red presents a spine-tingling story of murder and betrayal in high society Savannah, where a homicide detective finds his career—and life—on the line.

When Savannah detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned to an unusual crime scene, he knows discretion is key. Influential Judge Cato Laird's beloved trophy wife, Elise, has fatally shot a burglar. She claims self-defense, but Duncan suspects she's lying, and puts his career in jeopardy by investigating further. Then, in secret, Elise makes an incredible allegation, which he dismisses as the lie of a cunning woman trying to exploit his intense attraction to her. But when Elise goes missing, Duncan finds that trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death for both of them.